As I was exploring the blender modifiers I stumbled over the Array-Modifier and its object offset field. I played around, with a cube and an empty object and found the curly effect kinda weird and kinda interesting. I had so much fun with it and that is my result.
I scaled my HD material up to 4K to preserve details.
I’m relay frustrated that HD looks like SD or even worse.
Compare it.
YouTube:
YouTube:
Sketchfab:
Some specs:
no cycles, no blender internal just the view-port render and post-processing
Rendered Resolution: 1920x1080
Frames: 7108 per layer
Total Frames: 21324 frames
Frame Rate: 30 fps
Beats per minute:150 bpm
Scene Render Time ca. 8h
Workload ca. one week
Used Modifiers
Hook-Modifier → to rotate the cube at the beat or not
Array-Modifier → for more cubes (100 pieces)
object offset → to achieve a adjustable pointy spiral
Mirror-Modifier → to make even MORE cubes
object offset → for extra motion
Sources:
Awesome song under creative commons “Pistol & Cutlass” by Wontolla
Released by: Argofox / Release date: 16 July 2016 /P-line: ℗ Argofox
https://soundcloud.com/argofox/wontolla-pistol-cutlass
BeatMarkers script by tumtidum
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?360919-Script-Beats-Per-Minute-to-Markers
Audio visualization script by sirrandalot
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxG1jZ_yCoqZSDBDUXBnb2UxNUU/view?pageId=108825755092415946519
Lens dirt texture by kerast
http://kerast.deviantart.com/art/Dust-particles-on-lens-461101707